WP3 Objectives

WP3 Description of work

Motivation of data centres to implement the VObs framework and support to this implementation.

Gathering feedback from implementation and new requirements from individual data centres specific needs, and transmission of this feedback to VO-TECH and other technological projects and to IVOA to insure global interoperability.

This includes :

Two Euro-VO Data Centre Workshops

Visits of experienced VObs developers to national meetings or sites selected by partners

Expected results

Diffusion of knowledge about the VObs framework among European data centres

Creation of a forum for the discussion and sharing of good practice

Feedback on the VObs framework and new requirements from the data centres to teams developing the VObs framework

WP3 Workshops

Following the discussions at the first Board meeting on topics of common interest for several partners, and allowing WPs to organised focussed Workshops in addition to the major Workshops foreseen as project deliverables, a workshop on "Astronomical Spectroscopy and the VO" has been organised at ESAc in March 2007: